Direction for question: The passage given below is followed by a question. Choose the best answer to the question.

It is one of the seven wonders of the world, but the precious objects the Great Pyramid was built of to shelter for all eternity - the mummified remains of King Cheops or Khufu - have never been found, and are presumed to have been stolen by tomb robbers. Now, 4,500 years after it was completed, this semi-mythical structure may be about to reveal its greatest secret: the true resting place of the pharaoh. Using architectural analysis and ground-penetrating radar, two amateur French Egyptologists claim to have discovered a previously unknown corridor inside the pyramid. They believe it leads directly to Khufus burial chamber, a room which - if it exists - is unlikely ever to have been violated, and probably still contains the kings remains. But Gilles Dormion, an architect, and Jean-Yves Verdhurt, a retired property agent, have so far been refused permission by the Egyptian Supreme Council of Antiquities to follow up their findings and, they hope, prove the rooms existence. To do so, one would simply have to pass a fibre optic cable down through existing holes in the stone, to see if there are portcullis blocks in the corridor below, said Mr. Verdhurt. Then it will be necessary to enter the front part of the corridor and penetrate the room, taking all precautions to ensure that it is not contaminated. The portcullis blocks were large granite slabs that the ancient Egyptians lowered into the corridor leading to the kings funeral chamber, via a system of cords descending from above, to seal it after his burial. Until these procedures have been carried out, the two are at pains to stress that the room has not been discovered. However, they have been working in the pyramids for 20 years, and their radar analyses in another pyramid, at Meidum, led in 2000 to the discovery of two previously undetected rooms. One respected Egyptologist, Jean-Pierre Corteggiani, of the French Institute of Oriental Archaeology in Cairo, was impressed by their work from the start. What first struck him, he said, was that the georadar images were collected and interpreted by a non-Egyptologist, Jean-Pierre Baron, of Safege, a French company that specialises in georadar. This specialist works for a company, one of whose main projects is to lay out the future TGV [express train] route from Paris to Strasbourg, said Mr. Corteggiani. If he says it is safe to lay the rails here, because there is no cavity under the ground here, hed better be right. If not, the death toll will be very high.

Q.1 According to the passage, portcullis blocks refer to:

Add to my a iron or wooden bars or slats

b c

mysterious structures of the past one of the latest archaeological inventions

d Large granite slabs used by Ancient Egyptians to lower into the corridor leading to the kings funeral chamber e Fibre optic cables

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Q.2 The word amateur used in the second paragraph of the passage means:

Add to my a b c d e Learner Expert Zealous Aimless Veteran

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Q.3 The professions of the two French Egyptologists working on the Great Pyramid are:

Add to my a b c d Archaeologists Scientists Architect and Property Agent Anthropologists

e Answer : Solutio n:

Geologists Correct Option is: "c" Refer to 1st line, 3rd paragraph of the passage, "But Gilles Dormion, an architect room's existence." Option (c) is the correct answer.

Q.5 Why was Cortegianni impressed by Dormion and Verdhurt?

Add to my a He believed that they were highly acclaimed Egyptologists.

b He had come across their work earlier and was impressed by the way the georadar images were collected and interpreted by Jean-Pierre Baron, a non-Egyptologist who worked with a company specializing in georadar. c d e He was impressed by their style of speaking. He believed that they were experts in utilization of fibre optic cables. He believed that their knowledge of archaeology was very strong.

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Q.4 The style of the passage can best be described as:

Add to my a b c d e Narrative Factual Analytical Argumentative Critical

Answer: Solution:

Correct Option is: "b" Since the entire passage is based on facts which have happened in reality, the style can be said to be factual, which makes option (b) correct.